tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91568327186846878252016-09-08T06:27:48.082+02:00Margui Speaks UpBienvenue!Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-12273790097699495392012-11-24T00:53:00.001+01:002012-11-24T00:57:01.292+01:00Elisir d'Amore - ROH 23/11/2012Elisir d'Amore at the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden tonight. Godd singers, good orchestra- above all Donizetti is a great composer.
Some remarks on the interpreters and the production
Roberto Alagna was never in the time - always weigthing on the poor orchestra, and acting as the childish field worker of his personnage - overly long notes (we are not in Neapolitan song!), stupid messing up Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-46744828818349719432010-10-27T19:40:00.015+02:002010-10-27T19:47:02.436+02:00Benoit Madelbrot died 14.10.2010MOURNING OVER
BENOIST MANDELBROT'S
DEATH
MAY HE REPOSE IN PEACE
AMONG ENDLESSLY
REPEATING DELIGHTS.
MERCI
Paris, October 2010
Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-41370971077227272352010-09-24T22:58:00.002+02:002010-09-24T23:15:04.080+02:00Music before reasonI do not know any of the opus number of classical scores: I can of course tell you that a Bach is a Bach, and that a Beethoven is what it is, and so on. But do not tell me a number, hoping to hear me singing; and do not interrupt my song, asking what it is!
Still, there are some mysterious moments in which I hear a music, and I have always had it inside me. I find it again as I would find a Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-88234090856261268342010-09-08T01:24:00.001+02:002010-09-08T01:27:12.557+02:00Vampires - a Belgian filmThis film may have well have been produced by a Frenchman, and smuggled as Belgian, just for a French to make another joke on the rudeness of their neughbours.You see it and you think: well, French are not so wrong about Belgians after all, thos film is just gross!
"Vampires" means nothing. The idea is pretty cool and promising: a Belgian TV makes a documentary on the Belgian Vampire community. Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-45422519034362335982010-07-21T23:02:00.000+02:002010-07-21T23:02:49.769+02:00Longevity is a matter of choicehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBXU2ES5Rs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lTS9lc9ZU0&NR=1Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-48188917627575257392010-07-21T22:46:00.001+02:002010-07-21T22:46:35.193+02:00Longevity is a matter of choicehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBXU2ES5Rs&NR=1Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-43437263340773979952010-05-01T01:03:00.000+02:002010-05-01T01:03:30.894+02:00Maison de PoupéeNe tremblez pas, mais je dois le dire: Audrey Tautou est anorexique ou presque. C'est ce qu'on découvre avec étonement lorsqu'elle rentre sur scène avec un pauvre jupon sans manches: on admire d'abord la ligne filante, l'irresistible courbe de ses hanches, mais quand on passe aux bras la magie est brisée. Et alors on comprend sa vitalité et ses mains trop grandes: elles sont les dons d'une folle.Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-79876225226676927822010-03-01T21:16:00.000+01:002010-03-01T21:16:09.372+01:00DifferenzThe main difference between philosophy and sociology is that sociology has as its highest objective the description or explanation of the organization of the human crowd, whereas philosophy may (or not) produce an image of human assembly as one consequence, among many others, of the explication of a unique first principle which informs the whole reality.
Therefore sociology may be more "Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-51231654764891143242010-02-09T23:15:00.000+01:002010-02-09T23:15:05.366+01:00Over PW's deathso.
Because we are fed up of mourning over nothing.
Because people die, grandfathers die, and the real mystery is to see a strong personality, which represented a wall in the whole mansion of your life, pass away, suddenly disappear, come back to nothing.
People grow and root themselves in this world, and then suddenly leave.
We are not eternal, and this conscience and awareness which accompanyMarguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-10792375294535418522009-12-05T22:00:00.000+01:002009-12-05T22:00:27.022+01:00Nightmare [draft]
If you want to kill awareness
if you want to stop your nightmares
Just drink and sleep, or try not to fall asleep
Once you have fallen
you're in the dark tunnel
where you can't move, where you can't say
"you, dark obsessions, I'll now sweep you away"
The fixed thought you couldn't move
at daylight, is there now, under his grave
survived, was nourished and grew up
fed of your effort to throw Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-74091272177054537392009-11-25T23:09:00.004+01:002009-11-26T23:22:49.448+01:00I saw ParadiseI have been to Paradise tonight.
I have rejoiced like a Walhalla generating Gods. Really. I have listened to Aldo Ciccolini at the Salle Pleyel, Saint-Saens Concerto number Four for Piano and Orchestra.
Listening to that has been like flying - like a dream of a deep deep sllep, bur colored, peaceful and clear.
This man has conceived and performed with such a masculine attitude and a formidable Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-16000612729741972022009-11-21T09:33:00.006+01:002009-11-21T10:32:29.734+01:00Night of music at the LouvreThat night, I wanted have myself a real good time... so I bought for 5.5 Eur a ticket for the concert in the Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, in the framework of the so-called Vendredi du Louvre.
The Hungarian Quatuor Takash was playing, in a minimalistic, wrapped auditorium.
The deconcerting point of this concert was that this people, when they play, they really bacome a sole animal with fourMarguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-23597151113855759192009-11-12T22:38:00.005+01:002009-11-21T10:47:05.415+01:00Mic macs à Tire-Larigot
C'est le premier film par Jean Pierre Jeunet qui parle de mort, c'est un film mort, substentiellement, où la poésie est réduite en frivolité, les philtres colorés de la machine à prise ne produisent que de monochromes et des hyper-foncés, où il n'y a plus de paix, mais seulement hysterisme.
La seule chose qui nous rappèle le bon Jeunet balancé de Delicatessen et Amélie sont les reprises de la Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-50372634798192976342009-10-10T01:31:00.006+02:002009-10-10T02:58:32.876+02:00What Amelie stands for
Two films by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the creator of the well-known Amelie Poulenc, has existed even before the film popped out, and namely produced two main works, of which I will talk tonight: La Cité des enfants perdus (The city of lost children), 1995, and Delicatessen, 1991.
Albeit la Cité is more recent than Delicatessen, Delicatessen is so very much better, since it reaches an equilibrium Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-46731128147184188162009-10-04T10:22:00.002+02:002009-10-04T10:27:00.997+02:00Metablog - open letterDear all,
since layout is hardly achievable from these column, this blog may possibly emigrate to another provider, like, after all, his owner - which has migrated to food providers across Europe since 2007.
This unless some conservative thoughts knock to my head, some heart-affairs with Google does break into, or any of my readers suggests me how to achieve an acceoptable layout (i.e. ...havingMarguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-1692315807784212772009-10-03T00:05:00.004+02:002009-10-03T11:31:17.102+02:00Review: Horvath, Figaro divorcesI am again about the idea of death. this is just phantasizing for the moment, but the dark thought that there is no real place for me in this realm is coming to knock to my brain again. And I am finding it somehow seductive.
And it was in an attempt to divert my attention from this circle that I invited myself to the Comedie Française tonight, havung a nice ticket for 5.50 Eur.
A real deal.
Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-32476060386366938502009-09-12T23:50:00.008+02:002009-09-13T00:48:42.635+02:00My Saturday in Paris - experimentalThe last thing I did today was to get some dirt in order to cover up a geranium branch that I found fallen from a windiw in avenue de Choisy yesyerday. A burial, indeed, but one which gives life and new dignity to this fallen geranium. I will call him Jon or Edmond, or Egmont. I am happy we are two in this room, now. He is happy and red, and promising.
Before that I was at the Panthéon, and Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-68582825388684948572009-08-31T22:06:00.005+02:002009-08-31T22:28:33.435+02:00So, ParisParis - full of irony and sensuality. One good reason for which I accepted to move here is that I found an ironic eye on my would-be colleagues, and people I encounter. A sort of badly conceived gaiety, which puts what you are actually doing in a broader context of light life.
I do live next to the Liberty Statue - the original. It seems small and nobody cares, everyone is looking to the other Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-46375070968648256302009-07-09T11:02:00.002+02:002009-07-09T11:12:18.577+02:00Berlusconianism and the Modern State
By Clara Schulze
Italian TV news failed to adequately report on the latest scandal surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – namely, the alleged attempt by a real estate manager to bribe the premier using women instead of money. The newspaper “La Repubblica”, which has instead extensively covered the story, also pointed out that 4 Italians out of 5 do not read newspapers, but rely Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-32155361735162503302009-07-06T00:26:00.006+02:002009-07-06T00:38:57.600+02:00Farewell at the Serpentine
I took some white bread and went say my goodbyes
to all the grey ducks of the lake Serpentine
But someone had fed them, so they'd went away
thus turning that party into'a lonely stay
The heat was just fading, the day almost gone
the day was reflexing the mirroring sun
In such pond of light was my mind then all stuck
beginning to think to my old yellow duck
That love which was crossing the Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-36689778912038388712009-07-04T12:13:00.021+02:002009-07-04T13:47:59.418+02:00Drunkenness and truthDrunkenness. Withdrawal of awareness. Lowering barriers.
Yesterday night, a Friday night of course, in a warm Northern city full of ghosts, I wandered on buses and buses together with a drunk man. We were heading home.
His colleague had tried to put hands on my hips, unsuccessfully - I had seen flows of coppery spirit flow in their throats - they smelled of strawberry as there was red Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-27512588194081629792009-06-27T00:48:00.009+02:002009-06-27T02:03:25.344+02:00"Un ballo in maschera" and meSo today began with a weird story: a guy advising me to seek occasional sex, at 8am. It let me deeply shocked - because it seems that, if you push something inside the bottom of a woman, then what is on the top of his head will come out - i.e. she will forget of her obsessive love.
It's not like that, I suppose.
But instead of laughing I let myself being caught in the trap of obsession and Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-80744013136477097912009-06-10T10:31:00.002+02:002009-06-10T10:34:19.530+02:00Poem's TV reading !Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-12010852017248642822009-06-07T11:43:00.005+02:002009-06-07T12:23:56.279+02:00Sunday's pray"Dieu, conduis-moi a celui qui je ferai heureux, qui me ferait heureuse."
May peace descend as a balm on me, on him, cure our wounds, balm our souls.
Bring him happiness and strength, and the pleasure to understand others. Bring me strength, peace and resilience.
May I be your living sanctuary, God, be able to pardon and make justice. May my body and my soul be an hymn to beauty and Marguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156832718684687825.post-43534742281982219082009-05-30T12:39:00.009+02:002009-06-02T12:12:40.344+02:00The jewels of the PrincessEastern people have managed to reduce the problem of scarcity not by creating abundance (sell-side approach), but by reducing the need of materiality (buy-side approach), i.e. minimizing the inanimated projections and tools for their material existence. This is wonderful to an European, as it sounds like the baricentrum of an individual's life has been shofted towards the non-appearing, spiritualMarguihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02036407567384362448noreply@blogger.com0